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Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog.
Interesting story that looks at how many subscribers various news paper sites have — that is RSS feed subscribers. The suggestion is that twitters are more effective for attracting eyeballs.
I think I may agree with this idea. I know I have collected an interesting list of sites’ RSS feeds and I’ve got them in a folder as live bookmarks. Yet, do I systematically read them? Not as often or as systematically as I’d like. It is just pretty time-consuming to go through them all at one sitting.
I do, however, have several Twitter clients which I can run in the background, and glance at as they show up. There are lots of notes that do attact my attention and if a headline has a URL with it, I’ll often check it out.
This sounds like a good thing to make into an assignment for my students who I’ll ask to compare and contrast and reflect on which method is most satisfying to them as users, and which seems more effective for a publisher.
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YouTube – reporterscenter’s Channel.
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Borrowed from post-modern philosophy, “individuate” means individual customization on a massive scale. It’s neither the same nor the opposite of mass media. Instead, it takes media into an entirely new dimension. And it will be key for media in the 21st century.
via Individuated Media on the Horizon – ClickZ.
A very concise piece that lays out “individuated media” clearly.
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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System is for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change.
The DOI System provides a framework for persistent identification, managing intellectual content, managing metadata, linking customers with content suppliers, facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated management of media. DOI names can be used for any form of management of any data, whether commercial or non-commercial.
via The Digital Object Identifier System.
This is the “ET call home” part of John Perry Barlow’s description of information and how it will managed so creators can get paid when it is appropriate. If you haven’t read his “Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net” piece on the economy of ideas, do so now. Then you will see how the Dublin open media standards are bringing that on. Basically, he says why not just tag information units, from stories to pictures — any digital info unit — with embedded I.D. stuff about who created it, what it is, who can use it and under what circumstances. Then the piece of information would “call home” whenever it was used, installed, remixed, quoted, etc. It could even have a “self-destruct” function to thwart the free riders who would try and take content that the author did not license as free and reuse it without paying. He collected these thoughts together originally in 1992-3
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